Stakeholder Engagement Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Stakeholder Engagement
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Stakeholder Engagement skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 22 85
Rank change year-on-year +1 +63 +21
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 210 152 41
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 9.72% 8.82% 1.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.68% 9.35% 2.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 116 25
10th Percentile £400 £413 £355
25th Percentile £463 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -4.00% -3.81%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £763 £781 £765
Central London median daily rate £575 £595 £625
% change year-on-year -3.36% -4.80% -3.81%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

Stakeholder Engagement falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,967 1,625 1,957
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 91.06% 94.26% 91.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,360 1,114 1,215
10th Percentile £365 £326 £371
25th Percentile £455 £424 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £774 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 18 18
10th Percentile £17.39 £16.90 £17.15
25th Percentile £17.60 £20.63 £24.09
Median hourly rate £20.25 £27.04 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.10% -33.25% +29.60%
75th Percentile £27.35 £35.88 £107.13
90th Percentile £44.85 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £24.50 £27.04 £35.00
% change year-on-year -9.38% -22.76% +27.27%

Stakeholder Engagement
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Stakeholder Engagement relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Stakeholder Engagement job vacancy trend in the City of London

Stakeholder Engagement
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Stakeholder Engagement.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Stakeholder Engagement

Stakeholder Engagement
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement in the City of London over the 6 months to 15 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Stakeholder Engagement in the City of London

Stakeholder Engagement
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Stakeholder Engagement.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Stakeholder Engagement

Stakeholder Engagement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 10 (4.76%) Confluence
2 8 (3.81%) Apache
2 8 (3.81%) Apache Spark
2 8 (3.81%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.90%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.43%) SAS
5 1 (0.48%) CMS
5 1 (0.48%) HCL Notes
5 1 (0.48%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 11 (5.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.38%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.48%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (3.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.95%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.95%) SAP MDG
2 2 (0.95%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.48%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.48%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.48%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.48%) Oracle E-Business Tax
3 1 (0.48%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (0.48%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.48%) Oracle Internet Expenses
3 1 (0.48%) Oracle iProcurement
3 1 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.48%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.48%) SAP FI-AR
3 1 (0.48%) SAP FI-FM
3 1 (0.48%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.48%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 55 (26.19%) Azure
2 31 (14.76%) Power Platform
3 28 (13.33%) AWS
4 15 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
6 12 (5.71%) Snowflake
7 11 (5.24%) GCP
8 8 (3.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 7 (3.33%) Entra ID
9 7 (3.33%) Microsoft Copilot
9 7 (3.33%) Serverless
10 6 (2.86%) dbt
10 6 (2.86%) Microsoft Purview
10 6 (2.86%) SaaS
11 5 (2.38%) Amazon S3
11 5 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (2.38%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (2.38%) GitHub
11 5 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (1.90%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.43%) Network Security
2 2 (0.95%) DNS
2 2 (0.95%) Internet
2 2 (0.95%) LAN
2 2 (0.95%) Structured Cabling
2 2 (0.95%) VPN
2 2 (0.95%) WAN
2 2 (0.95%) Wireless
3 1 (0.48%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.48%) Firewall
3 1 (0.48%) HTTP
3 1 (0.48%) IP Telephony
3 1 (0.48%) PSTN
3 1 (0.48%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.48%) VLAN
3 1 (0.48%) VoIP
3 1 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (13.33%) Power BI
2 18 (8.57%) Metadata
3 14 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (4.76%) Data Lake
5 6 (2.86%) SQL Server
6 5 (2.38%) Star Schema
6 5 (2.38%) Tableau
7 4 (1.90%) Delta Lake
8 3 (1.43%) Data Vault
8 3 (1.43%) Hadoop
8 3 (1.43%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (1.43%) Power Query
8 3 (1.43%) Semantic Layer
9 2 (0.95%) Amazon QuickSight
9 2 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.95%) Looker
9 2 (0.95%) SAP BW
9 2 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 18 (8.57%) JIRA
2 3 (1.43%) Git
2 3 (1.43%) GitLab
3 2 (0.95%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.95%) Selenium
3 2 (0.95%) Zephyr
4 1 (0.48%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.48%) Gradle
4 1 (0.48%) JDeveloper
4 1 (0.48%) JUnit
4 1 (0.48%) Maven
4 1 (0.48%) MLflow
4 1 (0.48%) Mockito
4 1 (0.48%) MSI
4 1 (0.48%) Oracle Forms
General
1 88 (41.90%) Social Skills
2 76 (36.19%) Finance
3 38 (18.10%) Analytical Skills
3 38 (18.10%) Public Sector
4 33 (15.71%) Banking
5 20 (9.52%) Influencing Skills
6 11 (5.24%) Retail
7 8 (3.81%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (3.81%) Investment Banking
8 7 (3.33%) Marketing
8 7 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.90%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.90%) Front Office
11 3 (1.43%) Billing
11 3 (1.43%) Local Government
11 3 (1.43%) Military
11 3 (1.43%) Police
11 3 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.95%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 35 (16.67%) Analyst
2 33 (15.71%) Architect
3 26 (12.38%) Lead
4 23 (10.95%) Project Manager
4 23 (10.95%) Senior
5 21 (10.00%) Data Architect
6 20 (9.52%) Business Analyst
7 14 (6.67%) Developer
8 13 (6.19%) Consultant
9 10 (4.76%) Data Analyst
10 7 (3.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 7 (3.33%) Change Manager
10 7 (3.33%) Data Engineer
11 6 (2.86%) Power BI Developer
11 6 (2.86%) Senior Developer
11 6 (2.86%) Solutions Architect
12 4 (1.90%) Business Manager
12 4 (1.90%) Insurance Business Analyst
12 4 (1.90%) Senior Analyst
12 4 (1.90%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (6.19%) PySpark
2 9 (4.29%) Terraform
3 8 (3.81%) REST
4 5 (2.38%) Spring
4 5 (2.38%) Spring Boot
5 4 (1.90%) XML
6 3 (1.43%) FastAPI
6 3 (1.43%) JSON
6 3 (1.43%) Kafka
6 3 (1.43%) Middleware
6 3 (1.43%) RESTful
7 2 (0.95%) Flask
7 2 (0.95%) Playwright
7 2 (0.95%) React
7 2 (0.95%) SOAP
8 1 (0.48%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.48%) Apache Avro
8 1 (0.48%) Bootstrap
8 1 (0.48%) pytest
8 1 (0.48%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.05%) Product Ownership
2 14 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 12 (5.71%) Data Structures
4 11 (5.24%) Onboarding
5 8 (3.81%) AI Agents
6 7 (3.33%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.90%) Reference Data
8 3 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.43%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.95%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (0.95%) Data Fabric
9 2 (0.95%) Derivative
9 2 (0.95%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.95%) FMCG
9 2 (0.95%) NHS
9 2 (0.95%) Reinsurance
9 2 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.95%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 1 (0.48%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.90%) Linux
2 3 (1.43%) Unix
3 2 (0.95%) Windows
4 1 (0.48%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (40.48%) Stakeholder Management
2 59 (28.10%) Agile
3 51 (24.29%) Decision-Making
4 42 (20.00%) Analytics
5 40 (19.05%) AI
6 39 (18.57%) Data Modelling
7 38 (18.10%) Business Intelligence
8 37 (17.62%) Data Governance
8 37 (17.62%) Problem-Solving
8 37 (17.62%) Roadmaps
9 35 (16.67%) Migration
10 32 (15.24%) DevOps
11 31 (14.76%) Continuous Improvement
12 27 (12.86%) CI/CD
13 26 (12.38%) Requirements Gathering
14 25 (11.90%) Data Architecture
14 25 (11.90%) Project Delivery
15 22 (10.48%) Project Management
15 22 (10.48%) Translating Business Requirements
16 20 (9.52%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 39 (18.57%) SQL
2 27 (12.86%) Python
3 9 (4.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (2.86%) Java
5 5 (2.38%) Bicep
6 4 (1.90%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.95%) LookML
7 2 (0.95%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.48%) C#
8 1 (0.48%) Google Apps Script
8 1 (0.48%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.48%) Korn
8 1 (0.48%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.48%) R
8 1 (0.48%) Scala
8 1 (0.48%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.48%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 36 (17.14%) Security Cleared
2 31 (14.76%) SC Cleared
3 11 (5.24%) Degree
4 8 (3.81%) PMP
5 6 (2.86%) PMI Certification
6 5 (2.38%) DBS Check
7 4 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.43%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.43%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.43%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.95%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.95%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.48%) ACCA
10 1 (0.48%) CIMA
10 1 (0.48%) CREST Certified
10 1 (0.48%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.48%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (0.48%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (0.48%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (17.14%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.24%) GDPR
2 11 (5.24%) PMO
3 10 (4.76%) QA
4 6 (2.86%) NIST
5 5 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (2.38%) NCSC
6 4 (1.90%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.95%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.95%) GRC
8 2 (0.95%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 2 (0.95%) PERC
8 2 (0.95%) SLA
9 1 (0.48%) APQC
9 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 19770
9 1 (0.48%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.48%) SEPA
System Software
1 9 (4.29%) Docker
2 6 (2.86%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.48%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (3.81%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.90%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.95%) Istio
4 1 (0.48%) Grafana
4 1 (0.48%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 53 (25.24%) Microsoft
2 27 (12.86%) Databricks
3 16 (7.62%) SAP
4 7 (3.33%) Google
4 7 (3.33%) Oracle
4 7 (3.33%) ServiceNow
5 5 (2.38%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.90%) CyberArk
6 4 (1.90%) Informatica
6 4 (1.90%) Workday
7 3 (1.43%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.95%) BeyondTrust
8 2 (0.95%) BMC
8 2 (0.95%) Cisco
8 2 (0.95%) IBM
8 2 (0.95%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.95%) Remedy
8 2 (0.95%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 2 (0.95%) Teradata
8 2 (0.95%) VMware